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Reply To: | Forum on LISTSERV release 1.7 |
Date: | Sun, 20 Sep 1992 14:47:17 +0200 |
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Note: this isn't a flame at Ralph or even a direct answer to just his
message. I am taking this opportunity to answer a lot of private mail
I've got about PROFS and 1.7d.
Mail from PROFS will be a problem until everyone has installed 17D-001o
(or any later fix which involves LSWPLIB). To put it diplomatically, I
find it a bit rude of the PROFS folks to assume that it is ok to send
PROFS-formatted messages to users at non-PROFS sites. Software (namely
PUMP) is available to convert outbound PROFS messages to a format
understood by all systems. LISTSERV has been kind enough to do something
reasonable with PROFS notes for 6 years, in spite of the total lack of
documentation regarding this format and its inherent brain-damaged nature
(dates in aa/bb/yy format where the meaning of aa and bb depends on the
source country, header fields in the local language, etc). 6 years ought
to have been enough time to evaluate and install PUMP or equivalent. Now
there is an unfortunate problem due to a bug which was not detected
because no PROFS site beta-tested the new code and I do not run PROFS
here, and thus cannot test it myself.
I am getting a lot of private complaints, sometimes worded as though
LISTSERV was a third-party mailing list/conferencing package for PROFS. I
wrote a fix for the problem within hours of the bug report, and that is
the extent of what I consider to be my responsibility in this case. I
will certainly not issue a new release just for a PROFS problem. I am no
Overlord of the Galaxy and have no power to force people to install fixes
they feel they don't need. My advice, again, is that installing PUMP to
fix the problem forever for all your users and for all servers (not just
LISTSERV) is a much better use of your time than trying to convince 250
maintainers to install a fix for a problem that does not affect their own
users.
Eric
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